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International Women's Day

MSF adapts and scales up activities amid escalating Middle East conflict | MSF Following the dramatic escalation in conflict across the Middle East region, MSF teams are adapting and/or scaling up activities in response in Lebanon and Iran.

Doctors without borders I believe is on location helping with medical aid (and always worth your donations) as well.

www.msf.org/msf-adapts-a...

Equipping Lebanon's First Responders 2026 March 2026: We are fundraising to equip Lebanon’s national first responders - The Civil Defense (الدفاع المدني) with essential and life-saving supp

I just donated to help equip Lebanon's first responders and firefighters with essential life-saving supplies to help them deal with the massive crises unfolding due to Israeli attacks on civilian areas.

Please consider donating: fundahope.com/en/campaigns...

Not to forget the fact that the us sank an apparently unarmed ship murdering close to a hundred sailors, just to distract from embezzlement and Epstein files (and for the "cool media footage").

Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page.

"Corporate Media Buries Story of US and Israel Killing 168 in Girls School Attack. No front-page stories in NYT, WSJ, WaPo. No mention on NBC and CBS Sunday Shows. No stand alone segments on Evening News shows. A death count on par with the OKC bombing is relegated to the back page."

Cover of The Lancet, 28 February 2026 issue. The quote: “The destruction that Kennedy has wrought in 1 year might take generations to repair, and there is little hope for US health and science while he remains at the helm.”

On the cover of The Lancet:
Editorial — “Robert F Kennedy Jr: 1 year of failure”

Read the latest issue: spkl.io/63327Aa31W

The truth is not the average of a fact and a lie.

Tech FutureSight: Orbital Data Centers Won’t Serve Terrestrial Needs, So Focus on Earth Gartner Information Technology Research on Tech FutureSight: Orbital Data Centers Won’t Serve Terrestrial Needs, So Focus on Earth

I don't often agree with Gartner, but finally someone stating the obvious: orbital data centers are crazy nonsense.

www.gartner.com/en/documents...

Your Password Manager May Not Be As Secure As You Thought Cryptography researchers have found ways to access data from a number of password managers, but it might not be time to switch just yet.

I had fun learning about potential security vulnerabilities in cloud-based password managers last week. Thanks to @kennyog.bsky.social and @lujobauer.bsky.social for their insights:

www.iflscience.com/your-passwor...

Das muss man erstmal schaffen, ein Gesetzesvorhaben zu präsentieren, das so durchsichtig ausschließlich fossilen Lobbyinteressen dient, allen anderen aber schadet, dass man diese Phalanx aus Kritik inspiriert. Chapaeau, Schwarz-Rot! Hier eine kleine Auswahl.

Advancing Brainwave-Based Biometrics: A Large-Scale, Multi-Session Evaluation The field of brainwave-based biometrics has gained attention for its potential to revolutionize user authentication through hands-free interaction, resistance to shoulder surfing, continuous authentic...

Congrats to our Matin for his paper “Advancing Brainwave-Based Biometrics” accepted at TBIOM!
Largest ever cross-session EEG authentication study (345 subjects, >6k sessions), ResNet + metric learning, extensive deployment analysis, and: it's fully reproducible.

ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/114...

The virus killed my uncle in just four days during the initial wave. He died alone in the ICU on a ventilator because nobody was allowed in the room. These trolls want to make a “comedy” out of it.

Meta Plans to Add Facial Recognition Technology to Its Smart Glasses

Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.

Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”

As Le Point and Le Monde have both reported, Epstein was running a major project out of his luxurious apartment in Paris' 16th arrondissement to advance the interests of Marine Le Pen and her Pétainiste party, which appears to have been coordinated on several levels with the Kremlin. Here's Bannon.

Today, let’s remember Richard Hamming, who was born #OTD 1915. Hamming received the 1968 #ACMTuringAward for his work on numerical methods, automatic coding systems, and error-detecting and error-correcting codes. Read Hamming’s bio, here: amturing.acm.org/award_winner...

CHI, Barcelona

Congratulations to the authors!
The paper “Do Citizens Agree with the EU AI Act? Public Perspectives on Risk and Regulation of AI Systems” by G. Gasiola, G. Lima, Y. Zou, and F. Zufall has been accepted at the CHI Conference, taking place April 13–17, 2026, in Barcelona. chi2026.acm.org

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Annika Sauer wins the excellence award of Université franco-allemande/Deutsch-Französische Hochschule, for the best graduate. Annika did her Master's with us on Attack Resilience in Differential Privacy, co-supervised by Héber Hwang Arcolezi and our Patricia at KIT and UGA/INP.
Congrats, great work!

Achten immer weniger auf ihr Äußeres: Erste Pinguine tragen Jogginghose statt Frack Antarktis (dpo) - Ein schleichender Kulturwandel macht sich derzeit in der Fauna der Antarktis bemerkbar. Dort beobachten Wissenschaftler seit Jahren,

Achten immer weniger auf ihr Äußeres: Erste Pinguine tragen Jogginghose statt Frack www.der-postillon.com/2025/02/ping...

This seems like one of the most US American things to read these days - you've been incarcerated falsely and shipped around the country against your rights, but getting home is your own problem. 🤔 That's why "land of the free", I guess?

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE 404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.

Nazi SS troops would have been grateful and much more powerful with Palantir software to select targets for deportation and executions. :|

Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE

"The tool lets ICE populate a map with..."
www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

Yet another reason why Palantir software shouldn't be allowed in free, democratic societies.

Good reason why facial recognition is and should remain prohibited technology for public bodies in Europe.

Today in 1925, #ACMTuringAward recipient Douglas Engelbart was born. Engelbart received the Turing Award in 1997 for his inspiring vision of the future of interactive computing and the invention of key technologies to help realize this vision. amturing.acm.org/award_winner...

Social networks could be treated as publishers if they host illegal content, Minister of State says Government considering law that would ban ‘deepfakes’, Niamh Smyth says

Irland möchte Soziale Medien endlich wie Medien behandeln und regulieren. Das sind allerbeste Neuigkeiten! ❤️❤️❤️

"...that if a platform “doesn’t address the question of child sexual abuse material, or some of similar material against adults..."

www.irishtimes.com/politics/oir...

Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.

www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...

And this is why I don't save my encryption keys to my Microsoft Account

Yet people act surprised every time.

Stop using Microsoft. Stop blindly trusting the cloud. FFS.

Screenshot of the title page of Alex' paper - "The Adverse Effects of Omitting Records in Differential Privacy: How Sampling and Suppression Degrade the Privacy–Utility Tradeoff"

💥The year starts with great news:💥
🍾Àlex' paper accepted at USENIX Sec🎉
He demonstrates how suppression (and: sampling as one special case) may amplify privacy but yields disproportionate utility loss.
It's been hard work: 🚀per aspera ad astra🌟
Congrats, we're proud!
arxiv.org/abs/2601.05180